Shoe.



M. HILGERT.

SHOE.

APPLICATION 111.51) .mm1-5,

Patented Sept. 24, 1912.

'UNITED sTATEsrATENT onirica.

MATHEW mmnm, pr NEW Yonx, N. Y.

SHOE.

To all whom t may concer/n Be it known that l, MATHEW HILGERT,

- a citizen of the United States, and resident 2 l .I the accompanying drawings,

of the borough of and State of New tain Improvements in Shoes,

Manhattan, city, county York, have invented cerof which the!I following description, in connection with is a specificai tion, like referencecharacters on the drawings .indicating like parts in the several 'I lis given thereby i tion the resulting shoes, are

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boots and shoes such as are worn byperc This invention relates to boots and shoes j and more particularly to improvements mi sons having certain distortions or malformal tions of the feet.

It frequently happens that a shoe of standi fitl the foot of the wea-rer ard form does not properly and the arches ,of the foot are thrown out of normal a tendency -to roll toward one side or the other position and the foot i which if not` corrected results in -a badly4 unbalanced muscular condition of the foot. Many exl pedients have been adopted inthe construcof shoes for the purpose of correcting this condition but so far as known to memore or less distorted and are unsatisfactory because their conspicuousness calls wearers defective foot.

attention to thel Also the disar-I rangement of the lines of the .shoe such as the throat and the lace opening and the side seams connect-ing the vamp. and quarters, the' symmetrical location of which lines has become established by experience asafford-A ing greatest'comfort and most leasing ap-l pearance, which has characterized earlier` 4 wearers foot. This is accomplished by pro viding a filler or false insole of any suitable material such as felt, leather or the like, havin one edge of greater average thickness t an the opposite edge throughout its length, such thickness varying to conform to the bottom of the foot, and in order to allow for the increased thickness of the filler on that side of the shoe where the thickness will correct such tendoccurs the vamp of the upper is cutwith an a l excess of uppermaterial on the side adj jacent to the thicker portion of the filler to* compensate approximately for such greater thickness. -This prevents distortion Specification ofj Letters Patent.l Patented Sept, 24,- 1912. Application tiled J'une 15:19.12. Serial No. 703,881.

'of the u per with relation to the last during the asting of the shoe over the filler and preserves the normal relations of the lacing opening andV side seams to the foot whereby comfort and inconspicuous appear- 4ance of the shoe is maintained.

A shoe constructed in accordance with this invention will tend to restore to normal balance the entire muscular organization of a foot, and this is accomplished without altering the appearance of the exterior of the. shoe or disturbing of the different partsof of the wearer.

Theinventionwill now be described 'in connection with the drawings, which show a shoe embodying ar preferred construction in accordance withthe invention, and will then be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure ing toward the toel showing the filler and the proper relation the shoe to the foot.

yan insole of a welt shoe with the upper in Fig. 2 is a view 1n perlasted position.;

of the forespective, and partly in Section,

1 is a view iny cross section lookpart of a shoe made in accordance with ,1.,

the present invention; Fig. 3 is a viewln crosssection of acompleted shoe 'showingi the displaced position of the foot vin the shoe and by contrasting lines theJ relative locationsof the lacing opening to the foot in this position in a'shoe embodying tliis invention and a shoe made without the inventon; Fig. 4 is a perspective partly in cross section of the filler.

The preferred method of making the shoe constituting the present invention is disclosed and fully described in my ycopending application Serial No; 660,886, filed .November 17, 1911.

In the drawings 2 -represents a last shaped to conform to the foot and 4 a false insole or filler of leather, or the like of such form as to lift one side of the last- 2 a sufficient lheight to counteract the tendency to roll articular foot for which the last e. As is shown in Fig. 4, this filler is made of varying thickness to conform to the foot upon that side of the shoe where it is desired to raise the foot and is applied to the last before the shoe is lasted of the was ma last with the filler thereon will t the'foot of the wearer for which the last was made as more fully described in the above mentioned co-pending application.. The customary insole 6 is placed upon the false insole 4 and the shoe lasted in the usual manner.

As clearly shown in Fig. 3, the foot is supported with its bottom substantially in a plane, indicated by the line L -a, at an angle to a plane parallel with the tread face of the outer sole 8, as indicated by line b-JQ. By the use of vthis filler the foot is displaced in the'shoe so that, in a shoe not embodying this invention, the lacing opening and side seams would be distorted rela.- tively to their normal position on the foot of the wearer, such displacement being approximately as indicated by dottedv lines,v

Fig. 3. In accordance with this invention the vamp is cut unsymmet-rically, or with an excess of stock on that side which is adjacent to the thicker portion of the'fller to compensate for the displaced position ofi the foot in the shoe and thereby allow the lacing openin their symmetrical position on the foot. In

Fig. 3 the approximate position of the throat v v I surface ofthe outersole transversely of the,

of the 'shoe on the foot when no excess vain material is allowed for the displaced posi-v tion of the foot-,is indicated at (c) and the stock between that position and the correct.

position of the throat on the foot as indicated at (d) is substantially the excess amount of vamp material which is required tc compensate appropriately for the excess thickness of the iiller, whereby the lines of.

the upper are made to assume their correct positions on the foot. Ihe welt 2 is sewed to the upper l0 and insole 6 by stitches let,Vl

a filling 16 being added and the outersole 8 attached by the stitcheslS to the welt 12 in the usual manner.

and side seams to assume Loeaeee Having explained the nature of this invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-ters Patent of the United States:

1. A shoe having a filler inserted within the shoe, said filler being thicker on one side than on the other, and having an excess of vamp material adjacent to.the thicker portions of the filler sulicient to compensate approximately for the excess of thickness in the filler and-thereby adjust the lines of the upper with relation to the wearers foot in the position given to it by the filler.

2. AA shoe having a Jfiller inserted above the innersole, which filler is of greater average thickness upon one side of the shoe than upon the other, and having an excess of vampmateri'al on the side of the shoe adjacent to the .thicker edge of the filler to compensate substantially forthe displacement of the foot of the wearer from normal 1 relation to the tread face of the'outsole4 and thereby insure normal relations of the li-nes 4 of the upperA to the foot of the wearer.

3. In a wel/ted boot or shoe the combinal tion with the upper, outersole and linnersole, of a filler thicker on one sideth'anon the other throughout its vlength to/support 7 the wearers foot at an angle to the tread shoe, saidupper being formed with an ex-V cess of upper material adjacent to said thicker `edge of the iller to compensate 7 approximately for such greater thickness and thereby provide for the proper relation of the lacing opening and side seams of the shoe relatively to the foot of the wearer.l

In testimonywhereof I have signed my 8 name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

y MATIIEW HILGERT.l

Witnesses: M E; CUM-Mmes, HAZEL M. I-IILGERT.4 

